Truth Behind Politics

UPDATE:

Check out these stories: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/07/23/broke-california-cities-target-cop-shops/

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/article_dfb230c2-9bf3-11df-9731-0017a4a78c22.html

Yet further proof that police protection is simply at the whim of the city council and budget process.

• As citizens, WE THE PEOPLE have a right to protect ourselves, our family, and those around us who are facing threat of death or severe bodily harm.

• In 1856, the U.S. Supreme Court (South v. Maryland) found that law enforcement officers had no affirmative duty to provide such protection. In 1982 (Bowers v. DeVito), the Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit held, “…there is no Constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen.” In 2005, in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the Supreme Court found that Jessica Gonzales did not have a constitutional right to police protection, even in the presence of a restraining order. She was murdered while the police did not protect her.

• Since the Supreme Court has found, in no uncertain terms, that we DO NOT have a right to protection by the police or other entities of the state, we are only left with the ability to rely on protecting our own lives. “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.“

• I am very concerned about the safety of myself, my family, and other people in the community while I am restricted from carrying concealed my legally owned and licensed weapon to certain locations in the community.

• Of utmost concern is the current ban on places where most people travel during a given week. Depending on what state you live in there are many places that may be off limits to carrying of guns by legally licensed concealed carry permit holders. Such locations may be certain restaurants where alcohol is sold and consumed, places where admission is charged, banks, most government property etc…

• As is currently the law, individuals should NOT be allowed to carry with any alcohol in their system at all; however, concealed weapons license holders who will not consume any alcohol should not be restricted from carrying concealed weapons into establishments which serve alcohol.

• Licensing and training should be a requirement in order to carry a concealed weapon in public, but once that licensing and training has occurred, individuals should have more rights and more freedom than they do now.
  

• Guns can help women, men and others who might be smaller in stature fend off a violent attacker who otherwise may have taken their life. Pepper spray will not always stop an attacker with a knife from continuing his attack on an innocent woman just leaving work or walking from the mall to her car.

• It may be reasonable and understandable that concealed-weapon-holders not be allowed to carry weapons into courthouses, airports and other government locations that are considered “secured locations” which require each and every person entering the building to go through a metal detector and has an armed guard located at each entrance. This makes it much more likely that a person with intent to do harm will not get into the building with an illegal weapon, which therefore means that there is a reduced need for armed police and citizenry inside the building to protect lives.
  • However, in essentially ALL unsecured locations that do not have metal detectors and well trained armed guards at each and every entrance, individuals who are properly trained and legally licensed should be allowed to carry concealed. Without the “secured” aspect of the building there is nothing at all to stop those who wish to do harm from illegally carrying a weapon in and committing violence. The law on the books will not stop or deter him, but rather will ONLY deter those who care about laws from Legally carrying into the unsecured location. This will lead to less personal protection, and only more dead and injured innocent civilians and residents of The United States of America.

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